HR Team and much of Ops is Tribal, Political, and Not to be Trusted. - Punching Bag Protiviti Employee Review

2.0
Mar 14, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Keep your nose down, play the game, know who the influencers are, kiss their butt and you will do fine. Independent thinking is not valued. So if you can follow the herd and say a few smart sound bites here and there without stepping on toes you will be lauded.

Cons

If you have interesting varied work experience (considering many in Protiviti have only worked at Protiviti or very few jobs in their whole life, so have little practical, market-competitive real life valuable experience) be prepared for your high-value knowledge to be disregarded and often totally discarded to make room for the same old same old egos with a fixed mindset full of themselves. They talk a great game of innovation, but ask who has innovated what and benchmark it!

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

Pay is not competitive compared to other consulting firms and leadership is not as innovative as they could be.

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